| New website to measure doctor fatigue
A new internet tool will help doctors in Australian hospitals determine whether their workloads are placing them at dangerous levels of fatigue. The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has developed a fatigue risk assessment website which allows doctors to track their work, recreation and sleeping hours over a week and gives them a risk rating. .
Burglars go through the roof to plunder area liquor stores
Traditionally, anyone entering from the roof over the Christmas holiday will eat cookies and leave gifts, not steal the valuables. But several Madison-area liquor stores are feeling a post-holiday hangover caused by larcenous acrobats cutting through roofs and targeting safes and holiday cash. At least four stores and one restaurant in Fitchburg, Madison, Sun Prairie, Maple Bluff and the town of Cottage Grove were entered via the roof or ceiling vents in the past week, and some store managers are upset police did not warn businesses after the first two were reported. The first appears to have been at Neil's Liquor, 3064 Fish Hatchery Road, where manager Brian Frain was alerted by an alarm Wednesday morning of a break-in. .
Milwaukee companies brace for a 'slow climb' in 2007
Tempered by a housing market hangover, a slumping American automotive industry and the costly war in Iraq, most economists are projecting slow growth of 2 to 3 percent for the U.S. economy in 2007. Read more about the year ahead in SBT's annual Economic Trends issue, which hit the newsstands today. The cover story is headlined, "Prepare for the slow climb." The comprehensive special print edition includes reports on the stock market, employment trends, the automotive industry, information technology, the retail industry, mergers and acquisitions activity, manufacturing, the impact of China, commercial real estate developments, health care and the insurance industry. The report also includes an exclusive SBT poll of Milwaukee-area small business executives. The special report coincides with the Northern Trust Economic Trends Breakfast presented by SBT, the Independent Business Association of Wisconsin and TEC.
Pub shooting victims home as police reassure public
BOTH victims of the shooting outside the Fox and Goose pub on Saturday have left hospital and returned home. Tommy Godfrey, 31, an employee of Southport firm Offlimits Security, was left with chest injuries after being shot by a gunman at just past 11pm outside the Cable Street pub. His 20-year-old colleague, whose identity is unknown, is thought to have more serious but not life-threatening leg and hip injuries. He is believed to have only been in the job a matter of months. .
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